San
Francisco, CA,
February 19, 2002- Televoke
today announced Yash Pal Talreja has
joined the company as vice president,
products and technology. Talreja joins
Televoke from PeopleSoft Inc., where
as vice president of PeopleTools development
he managed more than 200 developers
and was responsible for the entire portfolio
of PeopleSoft's application development
and deployment tools.
"Yash
possesses a unique combination of broad
technical knowledge, in-depth systems
expertise and insight into customer
requirements that will help Televoke
and its customers continue their leadership
in the telematics market," said
Bob Kimball, CEO of Televoke.
Before
joining PeopleSoft, Talreja was director
of business systems at More.com, an
online superstore of health beauty and
wellness products. Previously, Talreja
was with Oracle for more than six years
in various technical leadership roles,
most recently as director of development
for Oracle's electronic commerce division.
"The
market for wireless notification, tracking
and control applications is rapidly evolving,
and Televoke's fully automated and integrated
Web and telephony service platform is
in a great position to help both individuals
and enterprise customers track and control
commercial and personal assets,"
said Talreja. "I look forward to
leading the engineering and product management
teams to guide delivery of its next generation
technology."
As
vice president of products and technology
at Televoke, Talreja will be responsible
for the overall system architecture,
reliability and scalability to ensure
smooth implementation of customer systems,
as well as for extending and enhancing
the Televoke service platform.
About
Televoke, Inc.
Televoke "connects people to things"
by providing an automated web and telephony
service platform that enables businesses
to develop and deliver location-based
safety, security and productivity applications
for their customers worldwide. With
Televoke's wireless software platform,
individuals and enterprises can track
and control valuable assets, and be
proactively notified through any Internet-connected
device or telephone when a valuable
asset or loved one is at risk. The Televoke
service platform can be customized and
branded for any partner and integrated
with virtually any enterprise system,
hardware device, GPS or other location
technology, wireless or wire line network.
Televoke was recently named by CNET
as a "Top Ten" private wireless
company to watch in 2001. For more information
on Televoke, please click here.
|